Tag: Pills

Kentucky Woman Found With Over 850 Pills, Sentenced

A Kentucky woman has been sentenced after a Huntington police officer found more than 850 pills in her vehicle.

Acting U.S. Attorney Carol Casto says in a news release that 45-year-old Karen Sue Fields of Olive Hill, Kentucky, was sentenced to three years and a month in federal prison Tuesday.

Fields was charged with possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and alprazolam. She pleaded guilty in September.

Authorities say Fields was charged in July 2014 after a traffic stop. A Huntington police officer found more than 800 oxycodone tablets and more than 50 alprazolam tablets in a search of Field’s vehicle.

Authorities say Fields admitted she bought the pills for $17,500 and was on her way back to Kentucky to deliver them to another individual.

Companies Ask Boone Judget to Keep Suit's Pill Records Sealed

Eleven pharmaceutical drug distributors have asked a judge to deny the state’s request to unseal a court filing containing information about their shipments to West Virginia pharmacies.

The companies are being sued in Boone County Circuit Court by the Department of Health and Human Resources and the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety. The lawsuit alleges that the companies shipped excessive amounts of prescription painkillers to southern West Virginia pharmacies.

The Charleston Gazette reports that the companies asked the judge last week to keep the drug shipment information sealed. They say the information is confidential.

The state argues that the records are in the public’s interest.

The records are contained in a revision of the lawsuit, which originally was filed in 2012 by former Attorney General Darrell McGraw.

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